Charon
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Charon may refer to:
Ancient world
Science, technology and manufacturing
Popular culture
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Ancient world
- Charon (mythology)Charon (mythology)In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on...
, in Greek mythology, the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld - Charon of Lampsacus, ancient Greek logographer (history)
- Charon, a Theban military commander (fl. mid-4th century BC); see Androcydes (painter)Androcydes (painter)Androcydes of Cyzicus was a Greek painter of the 4th century BC, whose Battle of Plataea became involved in a political controversy. Plutarch's remarks concerning this work are of interest to art historians who study history painting as a genre.According to Plutarch, Androcydes received a...
Science, technology and manufacturing
- Charon (moon)Charon (moon)Charon is the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station. Following the 2005 discovery of two other natural satellites of Pluto , Charon may also be referred to as Pluto I...
, a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto - Charon (web browser)Charon (web browser)Charon is a web browser for the Inferno operating system. It is a basic graphical browser with support for JavaScript, HTTPS, and basic support for FTP.- History:...
, a web browser for the Inferno operating system - Charon (genus), a genus of amblypygid
- Charon (cars), a Dutch automobile manufacturer
Popular culture
- Charon (band)Charon (band)Charon was a Finnish gothic metal band from Raahe, Finland.-Biography:Charon was founded in 1992 by Mario Tepšić, Teemu Hautamäki, Pasi Sipilä, and Jasse Hast and was originally a brutal death metal act. After releasing three promo albums and two demos, all self-released, the band signed a record...
, a Finnish gothic metal band - Charon (CrossGen)Charon (CrossGen)Charon is the main antagonist in the comic book universe known as CrossGen or the Sigilverse. He appears most often in Negation but has also had his own limited series Mark of Charon and is mentioned throughout many CrossGen titles...
, a comic book character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse - Charon (Dungeons & Dragons)Charon (Dungeons & Dragons)In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Charon is a powerful altraloth, a lord of the yugoloths, reportedly transformed into a more powerful creature by the night hags of the Gray Waste. Charon's role is to provide travel on the River Styx, but he always charges a steep price and kills those...
, a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price - Charon (Marvel Comics)Charon (Marvel Comics)Charon is a fictitious Marvel Comics villain who made his sole appearance in the 1993 X-Factor Annual #8.- Early life :The real identity of Charon is Charlie Ronalds. As a young boy, Charlie witnessed his parents' death at the hands of a mutant . Enraged, Charlie flung himself at the mutant,...
, a villainous wizard - Charon (The Three Worlds), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle
- Commander Charon, one of the Galactic Commanders from Pokémon Platinum
- CaronteCaronteCaronte is the second album released by the Italian progressive rock band The Trip, in 1971. It is a concept album based on the Charon character from Dante's Divine Comedy, recast as a metaphor of conformism; Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are mentioned, respectively in songs Ultima ora e ode a...
(Charon), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip
Video games
- Charon, a freighter class capital ship in the MMORPG Eve OnlineEVE OnlineEve Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven, persistent-world MMORPG set in a science fiction space setting. Characters pilot customizable ships through a galaxy of over 7,500 star systems. Most star systems are connected to one or more other star systems by means of stargates...
- Charon, a deathly mutated man (ghoul) in Fallout 3Fallout 3Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and the third major installment in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America, Europe and Australia in October 2008, and in Japan in December 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...
Other
- Charon, LouisianaCharon, LouisianaCharon is an unincorporated community in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Abbeville Micropolitan Statistical Area....
, United States, an unincorporated community in Vermilion Parish - HMS CharonHMS CharonFour ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Charon, after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Greek Mythology:* HMS Charon was a 44-gun fifth-rate launched in 1778 and destroyed at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781....
, several ships of the British Royal Navy
See also
- Caron (disambiguation)Caron (disambiguation)Caron or háček, is a diacritic .Caron may also refer to:- People :* Antoine Caron, Mannerist painter to the court of the House of Valois* Daniel J. Caron , national librarian, Library and Archives Canada...
- Eugenie Margeurite Honoree CharenEugenie Margeurite Honoree CharenEugénie Honorée Marguerite Charen was a French painter.Sometimes known as Mme de Servières, she trained under Lethière and specialized in genre period paintings, and was awarded medals by the Paris Salon of 1808 and 1817 for her work...
- Mona CharenMona CharenMona Charen is an American columnist, political analyst, and the author of two best-selling books, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First and Do-Gooders: How Liberals Harm Those They Claim to Help — and the Rest of Us . Her political stance is...